fastigium

From Latin fastigium.

fastigium (plural fastigia)

1. An apex or summit; culmination.
2. (architecture) A pediment or gable end.
3. (pathology) The most intense phase of a disease, especially a fever.
   • 1871, C[arl Reinhold] A[ugust] Wunderlich; W. Bathurst Woodman, transl., “Fundamental Principles”, in On the Temperature in Diseases: A Manual of Medical Thermometry. [...] Translated from the Second German Edition (New Sydenham Society Publications; XLIX), London: The New Sydenham Society, OCLC 456469091, § 32, page 14:

     [W]e find that the duration and succession of the febrile phenomena constitute five principal groups. […] 2. Fevers which are essentially continuous in their course (continued fevers), which exhibit but slight daily differences of temperature during their fastigium or acme, and defervesce rapidly (by crisis).

From Proto-Italic *farstiagiom, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰérstis, from *bʰers- (“tip”). Compare Middle Irish brostaim (“I goad, spur”), English bristle, Polish barszcz (“hogweed”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /fasˈtiː.ɡi.um/, [fasˈtiː.ɡi.ũ]

fastīgium n (genitive fastīgiī); second declension

1. peak, summit, top
2. slope, declivity, descent
3. gable
4. sharp point

Second declension.

• fastīgō

• Portuguese: fastígio
• Spanish: fastigio

• fastigium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fastigium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fastigium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• fastigium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• fastigium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fastigium in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin